Turbulence in Saturn's Atmosphere

neutron_p writes "Today an image of turbulence in the atmosphere of Saturn has been unveiled. This image was taken with the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft camera. This pattern is an example of a 'Kelvin-Helmholtz instability', which occurs when two fluids of different density flow past each other at different speeds. This phenomenon should be common on the gas-giant planets."

Comments

Re:Ummm ....

[dtolman]

What do you expect, baseball highlights?

Well... some context would be nice. Is this a first? Does this confirm some long unfulfilled prediction? They post new pictures from the Cassini probe all the time - why is this one chosen for a slashdot story out of all the newly posted pictures from the past week, many of which were also discoveries?

Re:Can someone explain why we should care?

[tod_miller]

For some reason your use of 'we' and us being 'excited' is not too comforting.

What kind of person posts a comment, slating a news story for not being exciting?

You website even has lots of astronomical looking bits in it - chill out.